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what's going on over on i'm abby martin so yesterday marked a year since occupy d.c. first gathered in macpherson square and brought to life a movement that has moved a generation to commemorate this anniversary activists and fanned out across washington d.c. with the hopes of reinvigorating that spirit you know a couple weeks ago andrew ross sorkin wrote a new york times piece about occupy and he said it will be an asterisk in history books if it gets a mention at all well mr sorkin i disagree because the fact is the overbearing power of corporations the enormous inequalities of american society the in ordinary role of money and decision making need to be called into question you see occupiers of not endure the harsh police brutality the rampant arrests and the cold long reign nights for nothing no they endure it for a reason and not to start a revolution but rather to start a conversation so let's start one. live

live die or die. isn't he dead already i don't know kill him anyway. so you guys know a date is right it's tear tuesday happy tear tuesday everyone today is the day of the week that obama's briefed about a secret kill list which includes the names of several american citizens including a teenage girl now obama insists on approving every name on the assassination list which one officials called a macabre baseball cards set of terrorists but as crude as it may sound for a president to oversee a kill list of people to murder killing people with unmanned drones is the smart way to fight terror. in fact the government and media like said that the most effective counterterrorism tool there is check out this pro drone video for the

hipster generation by the daily beast. or some critics of drones see almost supernatural effectiveness of the weapon the scene she's just sure of them the most drone operators can linger over targets for hours or even date ensuring that they've got the right target in sight one american drone operator waited until a suspected militant was finished playing with the small children before pulling the trigger i mean hell fire missiles and it was mark. so we the clip is humanizing drone operators saying that they wait for hours and sometimes even days to make sure they have just the right target one operator was even kind enough to wait until a child was done plain before blowing away someone on the ground that is just so so nice of them well according to a new report from the n.y.u. school of law in stanford law school and titled living under drones death injury and trauma to civilians from u.s. drone practices in pakistan that narrative is patently false here's

a summary of the report. in the united states the dominant narrative about the use of drones in pakistan is of a surgically precise and effective tool that makes the us safer by enabling targeted killing of terrorists with minimal downsides or collateral impacts this narrative is false they follow up to say following nine months of intensive research including two investigations in pakistan more than one hundred thirty interviews this report presents evidence of the damaging and counterproductive affects of current u.s. drone strikes goes on to explain that unmanned drones hover for twenty four hours over communities in pakistan striking homes vehicles and public spaces without any warning that the presence of these drones is psychologically traumatic for the members living in these communities who live knowing that a deadly drone strike could happen at any moment not to mention the multiple reports that verify that the government targets mourners at funerals and also those who simply aid the injured now i don't know about you but i don't know what else

you could call drone wars other than a highly sophisticated terrorism campaign against the very people this administration is claiming are terrorists above all else the report clarifies that the drone strikes have only killed set targets with a two percent success rate now i don't know if you did the math but that's a ninety eight percent failure rate instead of a lemonade in threats that drone strikes are actually encouraging higher recruitment into a tele tory attacks against the us wow what a shock has our government ever heard of blowback i mean is it really that hard to understand what the consequences may be from daily drone strikes against sovereign nations and after all the blood is on their hands the administration turns around and cites militant death numbers the media do to sleep repeats without of course explaining that any military aged male killed is not counted in civilian deaths counts. obama is officially the drone campaign he's ramped up the use of these

unmanned killer robots dramatically since taking office escalating drone warfare in yemen somalia pakistan and elsewhere recently pakistan's foreign minister. car was asked why her country is ranking among the top and anti-american sentiment and she just responded with one word drones she followed up by saying this. was very good going straight from pakistan thirty feet on the religion. i don't think anyone denies that not in the united states system so let's pick one book it is illegal and it is. that it is going to put up with me here in the. three nine eleven there was one. in five buckets did you know how many there have been from one to two thousand. three hundred and fifty two. interestingly yemen's president. has praised u.s.

drone strikes saying that they have pinpoint precision and even went as far to say that he personally approves every strike that occurs in this country a country that underwent a western backed transition after the arab spring have i'm sure the yemeni people overthrew their overthrew their kleptocratic leader just have a new one installed who embraced drone bombings with open arms but aside from the obviously unlawful killing and completely counterproductive counterterrorism strategy of american use of drones americans are for the most part completely removed from obama's drone wars but it's closer than most would like to think currently there are sixty four drone bases on u.s. soil and congress passed a bill opening american skies to unmanned drone surveillance in two thousand and thirteen without the us at a hearing to international law or building a legal framework for their use of drones it sets a dangerous precedent for others to follow suit and their unlawful nature now that obama is the king of drones seventy different countries are playing follow the

leader there's a new arms race underway that's revolutionizing the way war is conducted the u.s. is setting a dangerous precedent here eliciting the a legal framework for drone use gives free reign to the rest of the world to do the same now where was i. live die kill assassinate murder. the average american citizen might have several things that they're worried about extrajudicial fascination by way of drone strike probably isn't one of them the truth is that this is a part of everyday life in countries like pakistan yemen and somalia where the london based bureau of investigative journalism as to make that over the past eight years there have been between twenty five hundred and three thousand two hundred and fifty one deaths by u.s. drone strikes and at least eight hundred seventy nine of those were noncombatants

civilians that just happen to be near the site of a strike now it's been almost a year since the drone assassination of anwar joachim and his sixteen year old son both of which were american citizens and i talk about this story and why you should care about president obama as a mass murdering drone warfare i'm joined now by andy lever off so see it director of projects censored and we thank you so much for coming on the show today i want to talk about hey i wanted to talk to you about your recent op ed for project censored you called the drone program a form of pitiless and toxic keisha and i wanted you to elaborate on what you meant by that. and that phrasing is borrowed from the work of someone while who argued in an essay she wrote back in one nine hundred thirty nine that force was to us both to the people who sit and the people who are subject to a force so crushed the people who were the subjects of it but what it did

to the possessors she argued was equally damaging and equally problematic she said it intoxicates them and so they end up piece that i have about no intended in part to commemorate the anniversary of the assassination of anwar walkies u.s. citizen you mention is is really trying to address the fact that. we as americans i think have been intoxicated by. this particular form of force. drones give us the appearance of being a low cost precisely to be tough in the war on terrorism but the point is that those are appearances those are not there that's not the reality of the situation and deed as we just saw with that pakistani report saying that drones are counterintuitive they're counterproductive in the war on terror and i wanted to ask you as a member of project censored you focus on media distortions media censorship what

is the biggest distortion that the media puts out about drone warfare. well i think one of the major problems we have in terms of corporate media's coverage of drone workers the only people who are quoted in the press speaking about this are themselves government officials. and so what we get is a false what the public receives is a false sense of consensus around this program. and in the rare cases where government officials speak out against the program there's. a near silence in the corporate media about that opposition so for instance in june of this year representative dennis cruz soonish and twenty five of his congressional colleagues sent powerfully worded letter to president obama raising concerns about the obama administration's use of so-called signature strikes particularly in afghanistan. and in that letter because it's in his congressional colleagues referred to drones

as are faceless embassadors and they noted how these drones are feeding anti american sentiment around the world and those claims the claims are of who sits in his congressional colleagues have been validated by studies that came out just last week from the new york universe new york university and prince and no i'm sorry new york university and stanford university of slavery and we did it we did we definitely talked about that and how pakistan's foreign minister said that the leading cause of anti-american sentiment is indeed the drone warfare program there and the media you know last night they were talking about the d.c. sniper attacks ten years on anybody here we are ten years on from this extensive drone program that's been launched all across the muslim world why is it the media doesn't focus on large scale terrorism and they only focus on the small scale terrorism when they talk about terrorism in general why do they perpetrate lad well i think partly because of political elites aren't speaking out and sort of

corporate media who they rely on as the subjects. sources of news it's mostly elites in tone congress oh or you know courageous people within the obama administration begin to take a stance against this the corporate media aren't going to discuss it the only way in the research that i've done that you get kind of. contrary views in the corporate media is when civil liberties groups like the american civil liberties union and the center for constitutional rights. you bring lawsuits against the government and then there's going to grudging coverage in the corporate media of these contrary adversarial positions but as long as the corporate media are conveying primarily official government positions there's as i say this false sense of consensus around a program that in most of the world. makes people hate americans

absolutely and just to wrap it up i wanted to quote you because we're almost out of time but you said the anniversary of the end of all walking is death underscores two in a related press problems internationally drones intensifier enemies resolve because drones no less than suicide bombers and roadside devices that americans have come to dread are instruments of terror and lawless death domestically drone strikes against u.s. citizens on foreign soil usurped even the pretense of legal due process in this country couldn't have said it better myself andy thank you so much for coming on and breaking it down think seven. now if you like what you see so far go to our you tube channel scribe at youtube dot com slash break and does that make our facebook page at facebook dot com for the flash right in the set to follow me on twitter at abby martin i'll take a break from my preaching for now but stay tuned to hear about the n n's war on truth next.

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in march of two thousand and eleven c.n.n. sent a four person team to behind cover the arab spring one of them was a young to nations investigative journalist named amber lyon she interviewed activists film the atrocities of the bahraini government and documented the regimes and humane attempt to silence free speech line came back to the u.s. eager to show her explosive documentary but what she got in return was censorship in her own country she was told that not only would she have to amend her script post production but also that the documentary would an air on c.n.n. international a network whose audience needed to see it the most well amber blew the lid off the corrupted media machine for truth would call into question a media establishment where censorship is rampant where censorship can be bought and here to talk about her experience in the current state of journalism today i'm joined by investigative journalist amber lyon amber thanks for coming on i appreciate your time thank you so much for having me it's an honor i appreciate it

so amber you come back from filming this explosive documentary and uprising in bahrain and when you ask why it's not airing on c.n.n. international they say well it's never meant to air on c.n.n. i am the first place i mean what were you told about before you went did you know why what point did you know that you're being fed lies. well it's a point that abby executives longtime executives at the network started writing me and telling me that i should look into this that something wasn't right here so so i figured with their blessing i should continue on and investigate this and figure out what the heck was going on and i asked c.n.n. international's president tony maddox i met with him twice to ask him why the documentary never aired he never gave me a response at that point it wasn't until this really went public that they've been saying oh wait wait now it wasn't supposed to air you know my my crew was devastated about this not only for the people of bahrain but also because they had had risked their lives to tell this story i mean at one point we were violently detained machine gun point while filming this abbey there are risks so much to

tell the truth and get the story out and it's censored i mean from the very media savvy from that's supposed to be providing people with coverage so they can learn about these things amber you know a lot of people don't know this but the bahraini regime has actually undertaken a massive very well funded p.r. campaign to approve its image in the states what was the connection between this p.r. campaign and c.n.n. i. well one of the p.r. companies corvus that's right down the street from you in washington d.c. it's a u.s. based company they would actually call the c.n.n. desk and complain about me and tell me that i needed to include statements that pretty much deal of the human rights activists that i was using in my report so these p.r. companies are working for this regime as being the mouthpiece for the us media trying to use intimidation and and abby the more i investigated i was actually able

to uncover something that really you know made me feel defrauded as a journalist not only our sources we found out that crane is a paying customer. instead of watchdog ing buffering c.n.n. international's actually taking money from the regime and exchange for producing content that they then air and it's pretty much just guys this news because there's almost no disclosures that this rosy content about pearl diving and how the crown prince of progressive is paid for grain and have you know is a journalist ethically that violates all journalism one o one ethics you don't take money from dictators to air content that you're not informing your viewers is being paid for by these it is a whole nother level amber i mean we see you know the political establishment trying to toe a certain narrative to maintain dictatorial regimes for their own interest but when you actually had pain and knew it was out late i mean it totally flies in the face

that everything that you would think journalism should be a really shows the erosion and the problems really deeply in the system but i want to. go ahead yeah i also you know we keep talking about these regimes and what about the people of bahrain where the people of bahrain ever given the option to pay c.n.n. to air favorable contents about them that's what i want to know you know we're in journalism for for the people to be. the watch dog on the government for the people who are the people given a choice to buy content on c.n.n. . the people are the ones thrown under the bus amber when all these things happen between governments and the revolving door between these agencies what are your colleagues i mean did any of your other colleagues encounter similar type things or do you think that a lot of people who work in these media are just pretty much cashing a paycheck do they understand what their role is or do they have to be faced with something like what you were faced with before they kind of wake up to this i mean

i got in i highly respected the network when i when i first took a job with them and in two thousand and ten and it was a slow soli the relationship just evolved to me realizing what was going on and that my pieces were but were being censored and screened and in statements that were propaganda lies were being put on to my reports and i think above all complacent journalists are killing journalism and there are people within within the network and i'm sure within a lot of us mainstream media networks that see what's happening and they think oh i'm just a peg in the machine i'm not really causing this you know i'm just the one taking the phone calls or i'm just the one editing the reports and they see this systematic censorship yet they don't speak out against it well everyone is eventually responsible and the end they're going to come out on the wrong side of history because now we're even starting to see the mainstream media outlets really propagating a potential war with iran consistently demonizing iran not that the country doesn't

deserve to be criticized but if you're going to criticize you need to do it across the board and you can't just pick and choose when you want to criticize and just criticize in favor of the current feelings of the u.s. administration as as we see what's going on now abbie and i really fear that the unassuming u.s. public is being led into a war into approving a war with iraq. you know it's just the writings on the wall we're seeing movies come out and i run movies and almost nightly on a lot of these programs really quickly ambers seen everything that you've experienced also been shot at it and am anaheim with rubber bullets by the police i mean do you look back at everything that's happening in this country and really see a lot of censorship from the corporate press about pressing issues here at home as well of course you know we have a obama has a war on whistleblowers and journalists right now he's criminalized journalism by going after journalists for not revealing information about their sources with

subpoenas so obama has alleged journalism as a reporter it's become more and more difficult out on the streets to cover these protests i mean look at the situation in anaheim i was just standing there submersed with the protesters to try to see what was happening to them how they were being treated and i was shot at on main street and anaheim. and there are definitely you know it's very complete war against the truth it seems there and i can agree with you more that the media is the message and we are going to go down on one side of history or another and people really need to take a stand with what they're doing and i applaud you for your muckraking and keep up the great work amber lyon journalist. thanks and i break the news guys did you hear the president debates are on wednesday the gloves are off the cameras are on the media is absolutely transfixed on pump it up. he's

away from one of the most watched events of the year debate number one in a brand new rasmussen poll shows many of you can still be persuaded for either candidate fifteen percent are considered uncommitted but two days to go to the first presidential debate president obama and mitt romney will have the chance to press one another to answer questions that they themselves have been reluctant to answer and now to tomorrow night's highly anticipated debate between president obama and mitt romney today both candidates are hunkering down preparing for what could be a pivotal night in this race wow it sounds fun but it's also a murmur reported to remember that the u.s. elections aren't the only important elections happening in the world and a big year for elections one of which is coming up in just a few days then a swale is on the eve of a critical election this sunday the race is between president who goes chavez and u.k. at a preview these elections are particularly important given by this whale is geo political significance in the region hugo chavez has kept control of the country

for over a decade on one hand his government has had several accomplishments one of which is an inclusive democratic process democratic participation for millions of people despite widespread claims that venezuela's elections have been marred with fraud a former u.s. president jimmy carter whose organisation will be monitoring the elections said in september that as a matter of fact out of ninety two elections that we've monitored i would say that the election process in venezuela is the best in the world by nationalizing venezuela's oil chavez has reinvested in education job training housing and health care and he has drastically reduced poverty in the country by nearly fifty percent and all that although these social issues have improved the lives of millions of people stories always have more than one side hugo chavez is an internationally criticized first stance on civil liberties and press freedoms venezuela's partnership with the government of iran as well as chavez's ties with the fark terrorist group in colombia continue to draw criticism from world leaders now in

a candid interview with breaking the said former colombian president. said this. close to charges of mystical ragosta that go to america is groups. minister law. has been called operandi for narco trafficking in the child years. hostiles we don't there are going to such are that case have been as well dug. in by elites are increasing in freedom. suppressing the independent some long. process to gross possibilities for people to hop up around these two parties you because they are in the process do it and we know you don't depend on me the. double nobility of the government talking million guy and he's got media for government propaganda for

leaders like your rebate venezuela's elections will be a key in reaching a peaceful solution to terrorism clearly these elections have implications far beyond venezuela say what you want about hugo chavez but the success of the venezuelan election electoral process thus far serves as a beacon of hope for other countries in the region who are struggling to keep their democracies afloat and the message we heed before we pick our president here in the u.s. is to look at all sides of every story and make up your own mind. download . so choose your life stream quality and enjoy your

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